I use Audible, but their selection of SF is pretty limited. I've searched for Banks, Reynolds, MacLeod, Stross, Vinge, Robert Charles Wilson, Meiville, Steven Erikson, and been lucky if they have even one book on Audible. Their selection of mysteries and spy novels is great, but SF and fantasy not so much.
There are also a number of rip-offs on the site -- you pay $14.95 a month for one credit towards a book, but they have a number of books that are less than that while still costing a whole credit. They're obviously hoping you'll be foolish enough to use your $15 credit on a $10 book so they can pocket the extra $5.
The studios only make money from the broadcasts by selling advertising,
No, the studio makes money by selling broadcast rights to the network, which makes money by selling advertising. Studios and networks are separate entities, though they're sometimes owned by the same parent company. Note that all of Joss Whedon's shows have been produced through Fox, but only one of them aired on the Fox Network.
If NBC puts a broadcast flag on a show that wasn't produced by NBC-Universal and you decide to buy the DVD instead of watching it off the network, you aren't giving any money to NBC.
Natural philosophers studying the heavens have spotted a stellar nova some 7000 light leagues distance. The light from this exploding star emanated some 24000 years before the birth of Our Lord. This has caused some confusion among scholars, as this would require the star to have combusted some 20 millennia before the creation of the Universe. Philosophers are also unable to theorize what may have made the star explode, though one possibility is a build-up of gas deep within the star's anthracite core.
This is certainly the biggest bang since Mr. Wilkes' curtain call during "Our American Cousin".
At their advertised speed, if one were to actually be able to saturate it for their billing period, would be able to transfer 865GB of data. But they cut people for using 1/8th to 1/4th of that.
When an ISP promises you x kbps, they're talking about what you'll be able to draw at any given moment. Unless they also promise unlimited downloads, they aren't saying that they'll let you download x*60*60*24*31 per month.
Digg is extremely useful in keeping me informed about how Barack Obama is the One True God. Twitter is only useful if you want people you've never met to keep you updated every time they take a crap.
Yeah, you don't want to give users too many options. Look at what happened a few years ago when Netscape tried to spin-off an open-source version, that was fully configurable, with the main preferences in a standard options window, more hidden in an advanced menu that could only be accessed by typing "about:config" in the address bar, and still more available by installing plug-ins.
Gosh, that takes me back. Anybody remember what it was called? Waterhorse or Sunmonkey or something weird like that.
Either the NSA decided they couldn't win -- which is frankly out of character for them -- or they found a way to crack it.
Or the NSA's mission includes making sure that companies like Lockheed and Boeing have secure communications that can't be cracked by foreign governments.
What's the first rule of PGP? Your communications are only as secure as the private keys of yourself and the person you're talking to. If the government controls one of the machines used in the conversation, there's nothing PGP can do.
Actually, there are just three -- Army, Navy, and Air Force. The Marines are a subset of the navy consisting of people too dumb to know that ground troops belong in the Army. The Coast Guard can be militarized in times of war, but they aren't at present.
On one hand, us nerds show certain tendencies to pacifism
[citation needed]
It is true that all nerds believe "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent," however not all subscribe to the Asimovian interpretation that it means the use of violence is a sign of incompetence -- a good many take the Piperian stance that it means that the competent don't wait until the last extreme to resort to violence.
No, the FX on B7 were state of the art 50 years ago when "Tom Corbett - Space Cadet!" and "Rocky Jones - Space Ranger" were the height of sci-fi television. 30 years ago, when B7 was actually produced, they looked laughably bad when put next to "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers". Hell, even compared to "Lost In Space" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Bathtub," B7 was pretty dire.
The big corporations are still going to have their pack of lawyers constantly on this - they'll still get their $ while the little guy will lose.
That's generally true, but not universally. Look in the cheapie bin at your preferred DVD retailer and you'll find public domain releases of The Lucy Show, Beverly Hillbillies, Andy Griffith, Charade and His Girl Friday -- all films and TV shows that at some point a lawyer forgot to renew the copyright on.
Most DVDs of theatrical films produced after 1953. Anyone who collects TV series or classic films will have a ton of DVDs with an original aspect ratio of 4:3.
And the comments about identity theft are ridiculous, as most sensible people adjust their browsing/net use when using unknown networks to reflect their uncertainty in its security.
My neighbors don't when they use my router. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I use Audible, but their selection of SF is pretty limited. I've searched for Banks, Reynolds, MacLeod, Stross, Vinge, Robert Charles Wilson, Meiville, Steven Erikson, and been lucky if they have even one book on Audible. Their selection of mysteries and spy novels is great, but SF and fantasy not so much.
There are also a number of rip-offs on the site -- you pay $14.95 a month for one credit towards a book, but they have a number of books that are less than that while still costing a whole credit. They're obviously hoping you'll be foolish enough to use your $15 credit on a $10 book so they can pocket the extra $5.
Replace Katie Couric with Molly Wood.
If NBC puts a broadcast flag on a show that wasn't produced by NBC-Universal and you decide to buy the DVD instead of watching it off the network, you aren't giving any money to NBC.
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Natural philosophers studying the heavens have spotted a stellar nova some 7000 light leagues distance. The light from this exploding star emanated some 24000 years before the birth of Our Lord. This has caused some confusion among scholars, as this would require the star to have combusted some 20 millennia before the creation of the Universe. Philosophers are also unable to theorize what may have made the star explode, though one possibility is a build-up of gas deep within the star's anthracite core.
This is certainly the biggest bang since Mr. Wilkes' curtain call during "Our American Cousin".
Copyright reform is badly needed, but it's never going to be on a serious list of the top-10 issues facing the country.
It's a yellow blur that looks like something a five year old would make upon being first introduced to PaintShop.
But it's Web2.0, so it must be kewl.
Digg is extremely useful in keeping me informed about how Barack Obama is the One True God. Twitter is only useful if you want people you've never met to keep you updated every time they take a crap.
And in answer is that MADD's been a neo-prohibitionist movement for decades.
Yeah, you don't want to give users too many options. Look at what happened a few years ago when Netscape tried to spin-off an open-source version, that was fully configurable, with the main preferences in a standard options window, more hidden in an advanced menu that could only be accessed by typing "about:config" in the address bar, and still more available by installing plug-ins.
Gosh, that takes me back. Anybody remember what it was called? Waterhorse or Sunmonkey or something weird like that.
What's the first rule of PGP? Your communications are only as secure as the private keys of yourself and the person you're talking to. If the government controls one of the machines used in the conversation, there's nothing PGP can do.
Actually, there are just three -- Army, Navy, and Air Force. The Marines are a subset of the navy consisting of people too dumb to know that ground troops belong in the Army. The Coast Guard can be militarized in times of war, but they aren't at present.
It is true that all nerds believe "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent," however not all subscribe to the Asimovian interpretation that it means the use of violence is a sign of incompetence -- a good many take the Piperian stance that it means that the competent don't wait until the last extreme to resort to violence.
No, the FX on B7 were state of the art 50 years ago when "Tom Corbett - Space Cadet!" and "Rocky Jones - Space Ranger" were the height of sci-fi television. 30 years ago, when B7 was actually produced, they looked laughably bad when put next to "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers". Hell, even compared to "Lost In Space" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Bathtub," B7 was pretty dire.
Everybody prefers Quicksilver over stodgy ol' Flash.
Love,
Deborah Chen, SSN 045-44-7543, VA DL C4874928835y
7843 Castle Drive, Manassas, VA 22110
Fairness is not a martial virtue.
Bravery is not a martial virtue.
The goal of the military is to win wars with the the fewest amount of casualties possible.